The Raven And The Totem – Indigenous Storybook By John Smelcer

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Editor John E. Smelcer has assembled this introductory anthology of oral “narrative” literature, containing some 60 tales from 14 Alaska native groups, including Tlingit, Eskimo, and Athabaskan, so that the unfamiliar reader may partake of a magnificent journey into the mythic cosmos of the first peoples of Alaska – a world of creation and death, of passions and magic, of deceit and power; a cosmos where animals speak and Raven rules supreme. 150 pages.

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